Anthropology 101 Midterm

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Define Anthropology

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Anthropology is the study of human variation over space and time

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What does anthropology focus on?

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Anthropology focuses on the study of people and people groups. Their evolution, their lifestyle, beliefs and practices, values and convictions, myths and superstitions, religious beliefs, economics, gender and relation

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What is anthropology concerned with?

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Anthropology is concerned with how people organize their lives, how they grow as a community, what they eat, how they interact with their environment how they sustain themselves and how the propagate and fortify themselves

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Similarities and differences between anthropologists and some other professionals.

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Psychology is the study of the human mind anthropologists study collective thinking
Economics is the study of supply and demand. Anthropology focuses on how produce food, share and sell good or barter it.
Sociology is the study of evolution and development of human societies where anthropologists tend to take a more microcosmic focus and study the intricacies of human dynamics
Political science is understanding and practicing government where anthropologists study human desire and need to coordinate things.

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What is Anthropology's distinct pursuits

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To focus on the concept of culture, to have a holistic approach and to have a comparative perspective

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Define culture, and its categories

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Culture refers to the values, beliefs and behavior shared within a people group. Culture also incorporates the views of groups concerning itself and the world. It’s divided into two categories symbolic culture - peoples ideas and means of communicating those ideas and material culture - the tools, utensils, clothing, housing, and other objects people make and use.

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Sub-fields of anthropology

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Biological/Physical
Aercology
linquisic
Cultural

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What is ethnology?

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Ethnology is the conceptual aspect of cultural anthropology which creates theories relating to cultural forms and expressions

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What is ethnography?

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Ethnography is when theories are formulated in conjunction with observation drawn from cultures in motion. (Observing and documenting)

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What is Ethnocentrism?

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Is thinking one owns culture is better then someone else or judging someone else cultutre

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What is cultural relativism?

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is recognizing that every culture has authentic and credible aspects which need to be affirmed and red from the subject culture's point of view

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Definition and characteristics of culture?

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Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.

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Cultural knowledge and its two levels?

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Refers to the knowledge people have of their own culture. The two levels of culture knowledge are inner and outer or the seen and the unseen. (Outer; language we speak and how we speak it, food we eat etc)(Inner: beliefs and values etc)

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Cultural norms and cultural models?

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Culture is shared, culture is adaptive, culture is integrated and culture is based on symbols

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Sub-cultures?

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a subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates themselves from the larger culture to which they belong.

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Enculturation?

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the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture, etc.

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Culture change and related concepts?

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Cultures are always in flux they respond to internal and external pressures that precipitate change.
Some related concepts are assimilation, acculturation, cultural pluralism and snycretism